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It is well known that enterprise IT departments are deploying their workloads in both private data centers and in the public cloud. In fact, 85% of enterprises are deploying this way using a multi-cloud architecture (source: Rightscale 2017 State of the Cloud Report). Multi-cloud configurations [...]

When AirVM was just an IaaS provider, we tried to develop tools that would help our customers to access and purchase services without any help. Our original automated provisioning system from 2009-2010 turned out to be so easy to use, our customers almost never interacted with us at all! Not so [...]

Humans have been trying to automate what they do for as long as there have been humans. Since the Industrial Revolution the pace and extent of this behaviour has been increasing exponentially, and we now have factories around the world producing goods around the clock with hardly any human [...]

As the cloud management industry matures, one of the biggest and continuous challenges of running any company remains: Hiring qualified staff. Even as more people move to hybrid and public cloud solutions, companies offering cloud services are struggling to find qualified experts who can [...]

Calculating Return-on-Investment for Cloud Services in 2017 is about as effective as programming on punch cards. Our industry moves at such a breakneck pace, cloud services can easily be obsolete before they ever make it to market. The best way to succeed in our space, is to be faster to market [...]

As a new product moves from being innovative to being a simple everyday commodity, prices for most products naturally come down. Unfortunately more than any other sector, once something becomes ubiquitous in IT, prices seem to come crashing down. Take the price of storage, for instance: over [...]

In just over a decade, the concept of cloud computing has gone from theory to practice for the majority of enterprise workloads. The sophistication and features of today’s cloud platforms might have seemed like Science Fiction in the previous decade, we still are a long way from solving [...]

In today’s evolving cloud services market, businesses need every advantage possible. When choosing a cloud management platform, it’s important to remember the most important audience: Your customers! With all the technological demands of today’s complex cloud infrastructures, [...]

In our last post, we talked about the cost savings that our platform can bring to the table. In addition to reduced costs, AirSembly has many ways of generating additional revenue for your business. In the second of a two-part series, we want to cover the hidden revenue opportunities of the [...]

There are a number of soft costs and some real revenue opportunities that can easily outpace just about any AirSembly costs you could accrue. If you are considering a cloud management platform for your business, it is important to consider all the ways it can benefit your business. In the first [...]

Not sure if AirSembly is the platform for your cloud business? We have detailed three of the most common use cases on our website. Here are three of the most common business scenarios we handle: White Glove Account Do you do everything for your clients? Do you need to track usage and bill [...]

In the past few months since our last major update, AirSembly has seen significant improvements to stability and feature set. Our team continues to add new functions to AirSembly while aggressively fixing bugs and addressing known issues. Over the past few weeks we have put one major release [...]

When you sign a new customer for your cloud services business, your first concern is to provide them with a smooth transition to your cloud. It helps them get comfortable with the cloud and it also strengthens your business relationship. A successful onboarding, along with ongoing service and [...]

Netherlands-based Fundaments believes the perfect cloud can be built for everyone. They provide customers the “building blocks” for IaaS in the cloud, and then let them create a customized cloud to meet individual requirements. AirVM and Fundaments are long-time partners, and we [...]

The value of a product or service is often tied to efficiency, cost savings or revenue. These are at the heart of every business, so it makes sense that they stand as the main drivers of value. The cloud offers enterprises the potential to hit all of these drivers, which is why the migration to [...]

We often talk about go to market flexibility with AirSembly – usually when discussing the choice to sell direct or through the channel. However, the flexibility offered by the platform extends further into the sales process. One of the AirSembly features that has proven popular with our [...]

  On March 31st AirVM was pleased to co-sponsor a Hosting Community Day, hosted by Insight Netherlands and held at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.  AirVM joined VMware, ITQ, and of course Insight to welcome over 40 vCloud Air Network service provider partners. There [...]

You may already know that AirSembly offers cloud providers the ability to sell their own products and services in the same marketplace as their VMware offerings. We call this our XaaS, or anything-as-a-service feature. In AirSembly an XaaS product can be any type of non-VM product – [...]

Remember the “please allow 4-6- weeks for delivery” message? Those days are mostly behind us, as are the days when all that mattered was satisfaction with the product once it was delivered. Today the speed at which anything (physical or digital) can be delivered is now part of how [...]

Last week the AirVM team travelled to Europa Park in Rust, Germany to attend World Hosting Days, also known as WHD.global. This was our first time as a gold sponsor for the event, so we were eager to see what the week would hold. As a co-sponsor with VMware, we shared a booth at the Hosting [...]

From the moment cloud service providers launch their business, they seek to build a strong and loyal customer base as their main source of revenue. There is no business without customers and the revenue they generate, so providers must have a strategy for winning and retaining customers. Though [...]

As we continue to work with our service provider partners, we gain a deeper understanding of their business as a whole. One thing we’ve discovered is that it can take awhile for them to learn how to position AirSembly within their business messaging. In other words, communicating the [...]

Cloud service providers who have come to us looking for a cloud management platform are often looking to become more efficient in delivering cloud services. Reducing the complexity of billing for products and services is one of their biggest challenges. The logistics of collecting consumption [...]

  WHD.global takes place March 15-17 at Europa Park in Rust, Germany. We’re happy to announce that AirVM will be there as gold sponsor. For those not familiar with WHD.global, over the last twelve years it has become one of the premiere events for the hosting and cloud services [...]

For many clients the cloud still presents some unknowns. Cloud service providers work diligently to dispel the concerns associated with the cloud, but it’s not always an easy task. One of the biggest of these concerns revolves around lack of control, which has a couple of key aspects to [...]

  When we refer to our customers at AirVM, we use the word partner.  It speaks more directly to how we approach what we do, and it reminds us that we are invested in the success of our service provider partners. Continuing to evolve AirSembly is a big part of that partnership, and we often [...]

Happy New Year! We hope everyone had a restful and enjoyable holiday season. For our first blog post of 2016 it seems fitting to reflect back on the year that was here at AirVM. We had our share of milestones, and while we’re proud of all that we accomplished, we are focused and excited [...]

  In a recent post we talked about the popularity of the white glove service business model.  There are of course many ways to run a cloud business, and there is another model emerging that at first glance appears to be on the opposite end of the service spectrum, but in practice it is [...]

In an earlier post we announced that AirSembly had been selected by VMware as a recommended cloud management platform for VMware vCloud® Air™ Network cloud providers. This is an important next step in our strategic partnership with VMware, and it is also very good news for cloud [...]

It’s been a year full of milestones at AirVM, and we have one more to announce today. AirSembly has been selected by VMware as a recommended cloud management platform partner for VMware vCloud® Air™ Network cloud providers. AirSembly was selected for its ability to help service providers [...]

As a cloud service provider, how you resell your cloud services today may not be the same as it was six months ago, and it may change again in the future. With more enterprises turning to the cloud, the possibility of a change in your business model becomes more likely – whether [...]

Our service provider partners, while all somewhat unique in their individual business models, also share many similarities. Offering of white glove service to customers is easily the most common of those. Excellent customer service can be a big contributor to success, but there are also [...]

One of AirSembly’s most important, and most popular features is the white-labelled UI. The ability to brand and customize AirSembly allows cloud providers (and their channel partners) to seamlessly integrate the software into their cloud business. With the new and improved features for [...]

In recent blog posts we’ve reviewed AirSembly’s marketplace storefront, and its billing and chargeback capabilities. Today we’d like to focus on automation and provisioning – the third and final core component of AirSembly. Automation and provisioning completes the sales [...]

In last week’s post we looked at the first of AirSembly’s three main components – the marketplace storefront. Designed to help you sell your VMware cloud services, and any additional services you offer, the marketplace storefront offers the flexibility to sell the products and [...]

AirSembly consists of three core components – a marketplace storefront, billing and chargeback, and automation and provisioning. Together they help cloud service providers resell their cloud, manage their business, and deliver outstanding service to customers, all from one single pane of [...]

You may not have the definition of responsive design (or responsive web design) on the tip of your tongue, but you’ve certainly experienced its benefits when viewing an email or website on your smartphone. Responsive web design is defined as “crafting sites to provide an optimal [...]

  The AirVM team is back from Barcelona!  We had a fantastic week, as both VMworld attendees and the city itself left a lasting impression on us.  What better way to sum up our week than with some pictures? AirVM Welcome Reception     You can’t go wrong when you start off [...]

If you were at VMworld San Francisco you know that we like to have fun at our booth.  Expect more of the same in Barcelona, but we thought we’d crank it up a little this time.  In addition to prizes for the winners of our still secret booth activity, we will give away a daily […]

  The AirVM team arrives in Barcelona in one week, and that makes this week a busy one!  We have a lot to show VMworld attendees, including the latest updates to AirSembly, and we’ll have some fun too! We love welcoming new partners! In the weeks leading up to the [...]

In just over two weeks the AirVM team will be off to the next edition of VMworld 2015.  We enjoyed our time in San Francisco, and are looking forward to an equally successful conference in Barcelona. Join us in the Solutions Exchange AirVM is a silver sponsor, and you’ll find us at booth [...]

VMware announced general availability for vCloud Director 8.0 on September 10th, and AirSembly was ready to support vCD 8.0 the moment it was released. In an earlier blog post we talked about our plans to be ready, and our product and development teams have worked hard to deliver for our [...]

What an amazing week for the AirVM team at VMworld 2015 San Francisco!  Summing up all the good stuff from this week would mean a LONG post, but fortunately we have a lot of pictures to help us tell the story. Here are a few of our favorites from the week that was. AirVM Featured […]

AirVM issued three press releases this morning, just days before our arrival in San Francisco for VMworld 2015. As our Founder Joshua Vautour said when addressing the company yesterday, these announcements are the direct result of the hard work and dedication of everyone at AirVM. We took time [...]

Our AirVM team leaves for VMworld 2015 in San Francisco in just over one week. The conference starts August 30th, and we’re checking our list twice before leaving for the Golden Gate City. We’re saving the announcements for show time, BUT we think today is a good day to offer you a teaser [...]

  The AirVM offices are usually a flurry of activity, but in the weeks leading up to VMworld 2015 in San Francisco it’s been on another level altogether. The conference kicks off on August 30th and everyone in the company has contributed to the effort to get us ready. This is a [...]

In our last blog post we looked at some of the ways AirSembly can impact your cloud services business. To recap, a cloud management platform like AirSembly only succeeds if it positively impact your revenues – both top line (increased revenue) and bottom line (money saved/revenue you keep). We [...]

In previous blog posts we’ve touched on the overall benefits of our cloud management platform, AirSembly. No matter which features and benefits capture your attention, the platform only succeeds if it positively impact your revenues – both top line (increased revenue) and bottom [...]

The first half of 2015 is over! The days and weeks seem to pass quickly here, so before we get too far into the second half of the year we wanted to share some AirVM highlights from the first six months. “Welcome to AirVM” This was an often-heard phrase in the first half of the [...]

AirSembly is known as a portal for cloud providers seeking to unlock the features in vCloud Director and vCenter; but customers are also finding out it’s an entire platform designed to help them expand their cloud business. The software offers a great deal of flexibility to support [...]

In a recent article on Cloudtech, Ian Finlay outlined issues facing European MSPs as they work meet data sovereignty requirements by creating datacenters in multiple locations. Potential customers have very real concerns about where their data is located, so offering choice becomes essential to [...]

vCloud Director 8.0 is now in beta, and like 5.6 before it you will need a portal to unlock the features not available through the UI.  VMware is bringing some great enhancements to service providers with this next release, and are very focused on usability, efficiency and compatibility with [...]

One of the most popular features of AirSembly is our white-labelled experience, offering you the ability to customize and brand the UI. You can add a custom header, footer, and use as much CSS as you wish in order to change the look of your UI. With a working knowledge of HTML and CSS, you can [...]

Whether you’re a new cloud provider, or an existing MSP expanding into the hybrid cloud market, you may consider employing a channel strategy as you go to market. Building a cloud services channel takes time, and if you’re just starting out it may seem daunting, but success means your services [...]

  “Single pane of glass” is a term we hear often in our industry; in fact TechTarget recently featured the term as its word of the day. They define it as “a management console that integrates data from multiple sources into a unified display.” The glass in this case is a computer monitor [...]

For managed service providers of IaaS in the cloud, choosing which value-added services to offer takes some thought. Choose well and you can attract new customers, increase satisfaction among your current ones, and hopefully gain some business efficiencies. For many providers, especially those [...]

VMware recently announced that Managed Service Providers can now resell vCloud Air. This gives cloud providers an opportunity to unlock additional enterprise workloads and increase revenue by offering vCloud Air to customers. If you are considering vCloud Air for your product line, and you sell [...]

As a cloud provider you have a very real opportunity to generate revenue by helping businesses transition to the cloud and away from traditional on-premise models. In fact, the global Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market will post a CAGR of 43% from 2015-2019 according to ReportsnReports. [...]

Welcome to our new AirVM blog!  Here is where you’ll find AirSembly product news, how-to articles, and our thoughts on the cloud services market in general. AirVM is the only cloud platform capable of supporting all aspects of cloud business sold through multi-tier distribution, as well as [...]